RS740 vs Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) HD Graphics

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Gen. 5 Arrandale (2010)	R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name	GMA HD	RS740
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	10 January 2010 (14 years ago)	no data

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	12	no data
Core clock speed	500 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	no data	120 million
Manufacturing process technology	45 nm	55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Shared memory

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API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	10	9.0b (9_2)
OpenGL	no data	2.0
OpenCL	no data	N/A
Vulkan	no data	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

45 nm

55 nm

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